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might be done and

In this book I intended to describe all that might be done and to leave every one free to choose what he could out of all the good things I described.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

mother before dinner and

It was the daily habit of the Rana to pay his respects to his mother before dinner, and on one of these visits she introduced the Ranawat’s request, and begged the restoration of the estate.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

merry blade deeply and

For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry blade deeply and cunningly implicated in the obscure web of Parisian misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal his other talents, which was an old dodge.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

may be described as

Belief differs from fiction or the loose reveries of the fancy by some feeling annexed to it, 39 ; belief cannot be defined, but may be described as a more lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object than can be attained by the imagination alone, 40 ; it is produced by the principles of association, viz.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

man became disgusted and

More than one man became disgusted and left the school.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

me by day and

She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

marked by death a

[324] [Pg 336] The Silver Branch [325] and the Golden Bough To enter the Otherworld before the appointed hour marked by death, a passport was often necessary, and this was usually a silver branch of the sacred apple-tree bearing blossoms, or fruit, which the queen of the Land of the Ever-Living and Ever-Young gives to those mortals whom she wishes for as companions; though sometimes, as we shall see, it was a single apple without its branch.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

must be deliberate and

Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

mean by dominion and

This indeed is exactly what I observe to be the case among us; but I do not see how it can be inferred of men in a state of nature, who could not easily be brought to conceive what we mean by dominion and servitude.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

must be done and

Finding this to be the case, I felt that something more must be done; and having hit upon a plan which I thought would be effectual, I gave Dhanamittra directions how to act.
— from Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes by active 7th century Dandin

might be detected and

I thought over every possible accident by which we might be detected, and at last made myself so nervous that I could remain in bed no longer; so I got up, lighted a candle, dressed, and then wrapped myself in a warm shawl, and read till it was time to call the others.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 2 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

must be discord at

Wherever there are strong feelings and desires there must be discord at times.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

may be described as

[Footnote 217: It is impossible, in the compass of a note, to enter into any commentary on this slight sketch of the ancient geography of eastern Africa.--E.] The other, or interior Ethiopia, being a region of vast extent, is now only somewhat known upon the sea-coast, but may be described as follows.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

mornings before day and

For the discharge of their office, they do euery day say seruice, and that early in the mornings before day: and they doe in such sort, and with such obseruation begin their seruice, that they will be sure to make an ende of it, before day: and about nine of the clocke in the morning they celebrate the Communion.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

months before Dr Abeel

"Messrs. Doty and Pohlman with their families came from Borneo to Amoy, arriving in June, 1844, about six months before Dr. Abeel was compelled to leave.
— from Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. by John Gerardus Fagg

may be degraded and

They are utterly regardless of the men who are now pure, who may be degraded and wrecked, both in soul and body, and sent to drunkards' graves and a drunkard's eternity.
— from From Wealth to Poverty; Or, the Tricks of the Traffic. A Story of the Drink Curse by Austin Potter

might be deferred and

Dr Bruno, his own physician, again proposed bleeding; the stranger still, however, thought it might be deferred, and Byron himself was opposed to it.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

may be dead and

“Undo his neckcloth, somebody—he may be dead; and get a fleam, Gumbo, and bleed him.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

must be distributed among

Why, the gloves must be distributed among the score!
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

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